Former European Union commissioner and honorary chairman of the Reform Party Siim Kallas led the vote for the party’s newly elected leadership. His daughter, Estonian MEP Kaja Kallas, came in second. The new leadership includes many familiar names.

Kallas himself wasn't present at the assembly, as he is recovering from heart surgery he had to undergo earlier this week.

1,660 members of the party took part in the election of the new leadership.

On Saturday the party also elected Hanno Pevkur its new chairman following the resignation of Taavi Rõivas, who was ousted as prime minister of Estonia in a no confidence vote in parliament in November last year.

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDE) and former minister of health and labour, Jevgeni Ossinovski expects poverty in Estonia to decrease as an effect of the current government's income tax reform, though the actual impact will become clear only after data is evaluated next year.